Conventional measures of food access, predicated on distance to supermarkets, fail to capture the particularities of New York City's food landscape (including small produce markets and local grocery chains). Physical distance, meanwhile, is far less important that walk time in determining food-buying behavior when fresh-food retailers are pitted against more convenient but less nutritious options from corner bodegas.
This interactive map shows both market locations (derived from OpenStreetMap) and areas that lie outside 5-, 7-, and 10-minute walking radii of these markets, juxtaposed against Census Tract-level demographic data.
